Btw, iceleglace, if you dont mind, could you post or maybe write in the readme how we can get the graphic looking exactly like yours in the video? What other mods you use, the installation order, etc? I think it would help all of us, including me, to get the exact graphic like you have in the youtube video. Awesome work! Keep it up!

I can see the improvements over Ver 1.2 but I've noticed some strange graphical settings that I did not see in the videos. I do not know if they are intentional.

During the boat scene when you start the game everything is overly bright, so bright that you can't even make out Niko's face.

Also it seems that in certain situations (most notably during night) that the character models faces and clothes look wet/slimy/glossy. There's also a strange diagonal scan line effect given from light sources when the camera is positioned in a certain way. Am I just having problems or are these settings intentional?

Everything works perfect, the mod is perfect, very good work. Thank you for this!

To everyone having problems after Downgrading or with Downgrading the steam-version: Here is a detailed and until now 100%-working manual how to do it: http://www.gtagaming.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2198415

Send this link around, so everyone can downgrade properly and enjoy iCEnhancer!

Download a modified version of iCEnhancer 1.2.5 on my facebook page @ www.facebook.com/H1Vltg3 . I made it for people that like less brightness. There is a video of it in the VIDEOS section of this page!

"Now that this will be the final version for a while I'll be transferring settings I made in the beta to the public release and distributing to the masses. Look for it on the GTAForums ENB Screenshots Thread in the next two weeks. -PacketOVerload_x64Bit"

6/10 on 1.0.7.0 because of graininess and over saturated yellow cut scenes. the 1.0.7.0 version is grainy. Also during cut-scenes during the normal campaign everything turns bright yellow and makes it very hard to see. In the 1.0.4.0 version this was not a problem. but i am happy to see a 1.0.7.0 version and am sure the bugs will be worked out Thanks Ice for another one

Thanks IcE for your work. 1.2 already was brilliant, but 1.2.5 is a dream.

####Regarding system requirements:####

I tested this mod with different system components. As we all know, GTA 4 needs cpu power more then gpu.

My current system:

AMD Phenom II X6@ 4GHz

2x XFX HD 6870 CF

Corsair 6GB DDR3 RAM @1100MHz

Corsair 650W PSU

GTA 4 (high settings, 1.0.4) + iCEnhancer 1.2.5 now runs about an average of 31,5 FPS. As a comparison, i got about 28 FPS with CPU @ 3,5GHz and 25 FPS with CPU @ 3,22GHz.

So i suggest to have a CPU with min 2,8 GHz core speed and i would suggest a quad core. Can't really believe a X2 would handle it good, maybe at low or middle settings.

But you still should have a good GPU, GTA 4 doesn't seem to take a high advantage of Crossfire, don't know how's about SLI. I would suggest a GTX 460 and higher (Nvidia) or HD 5850 and higher (ATI).

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####Brightness problem####

Many people here seems to have problems with the brightness using iCEnhancer 1.2 or 1.2.5. I had the problem too, in both versions. I resolved the problem by editing the GTA 4 in-game settings and using H1Vltg3 modification for iCEnhancer 1.2 and 1.2.5.

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####Mods i use in combination with iCEnhancer 1.2/1.2.5####

To make GTA 4 even look better, i use some texture modifications:

-Better City Textures

-DKT70 Road Textures

-RealizmIV 6.2 (only the map folder)

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Hope i could help some guys out there to get a better gaming experience. Feel free to look at my Youtube-Channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/mirc0091?feature=mhee)

I have a intel i3 dual core, with 6 gigs of ram, 750 gig hdd, and a XFX Radeon HD 6870 Graphics card, is this good enough to run your mod on max settings? And if not do is it bc i need a better graphics card

I've installed the mode and finally it works,BUT IT HAS TOO MUCH LAG.With only the patch 1.4 the game runs perfectly at max settings resolution 1600+ but after I put in the mode it's like my pc is exploding even at low setting with resolution 800x600.The blur motion kills it and all the reflections.That means it has to be another issue which cause this problem not my graphic card or CPU.Does any1 found a solution yet?

Sorry but for whatever reason during cut scenes and only cut scenes, its way to bright to the point that u can barely see faces and whats going on in the scene, can someone help me with that, this does not happen during gameplay at all.

one weird thing that happened to my game when i used this is that for some reason the sky turns red depending at what angle im looking and at night when its sunny or cloudy the sky is fully red for some reason, is there any way i can fix this?

MICRO0091 DUDE YOUR AWESOME!!!!!! YOUR ADVICE HELPED OUT!!!!! No MORE GRAIN!!!! NO MORE SPOTS ON CARS!!!! NO MORE OVER SATURATION!!! PERFECT GRAPHICS ENHANCEMENT NONE BETTER FOR 1.0.7.0!! AMAZING RESULTS!!!!! Check it out!!!! in game screens WHILE DRIVING!!!!!

Hi everyone ! icelaglace i've a question to you :) Firstly i'm from Poland and my english is bad, so i'm sorry for mistakes .. Your mod is awesome, but i've problem with glasses. For example Mallorie's glasses earlier was normal, transparent but when i install this enb they're blue... glasses in shop for nico are brown etc... Please help !!!

Sorry but for whatever reason during cut scenes and only cut scenes, its way to bright to the point that u can barely see faces and whats going on in the scene, can someone help me with that, this does not happen during gameplay at all.

you need to download ModIVReal : http://www.ny-rp.net/MOD_IV_Real/index.html. Then you must install this mod, but don't install it in gta main folder, just for example c:/gta4. Then you must copy folder "shaders" from folder common. I hope i help you :)

I got Afterburner running fine with this game. It isnt crashing for me but then again I didnt overclock my GPU, just use the fan monitoring...Are you sure it is the Afterburner causing it to crash and not something else? I was crashing and I think that is because I got a Traffic Fix mod installed (for the taxi bug).

@EETFUK: I'm using retail cracked 1.0.4.0 since my Steam will automatically update to 1.0.7.0 and I dont have the energy to downgrade. Seems like it is hit or miss with the latest patch running this mod, so I just dont want to risk it for now.

I just saw your latest message, it looks like I dont have the overlay display running anyway. Try that and maybe that will fix your issue. Keep us posted!

In other related stuff: Anyone have a fix for the red sky and the brightness fix? For H1Vltg3, I am currently using your modified ENB and it seems to be looking awesome so far, however do you think you can make the Subtle FOV version without motion blur? I hate motion blur and I have no idea how I can disable it (maybe if you tell me just disable from the option, I can try) without losing the DoF. Thanks!

I don't get shadows, and everything is really white and looks nothing like the pictures. Is there something more I have to do than just replace all the files and put the un-foldered files in the GTA IV folder???

This mod is great and makes the game look fantastic, but I am having an issue. During the day, if I pan the camera around the sky occasionally disappears and it's just red. And at night it's always red.

I haven't been able to find anything that could be causing this so I figured I would ask here. Does anyone know what is causing the red sky?

This mod is great and makes the game look fantastic, but I am having an issue. During the day, if I pan the camera around the sky occasionally disappears and it's just red. And at night it's always red.

I haven't been able to find anything that could be causing this so I figured I would ask here. Does anyone know what is causing the red sky?

@peank, I got everything to work! Turns out the mod doesn't like my overclocks so I returned to default speeds and it's working perfect. Also I turned off OSD in the riva tuner server and now able to use afterburner :)

In the 4th video, at 2:16, which Mustang mod did you use? Also, will I need a super high end gaming PC to run this mod? It looks fantastic, but also very taxing on the PC. Also, in the 1st video, where did you get the speedometer?

Everything is great about this mod definitely the realistic one out there so far but whats up with the frames i am getting they are quite low and the game has got very laggy for me on certain times of the day specially early morning and evening in the game itself otherwise this is the super mod and i am using 1.0.4.0 clean install just because of this MOD is there anything we can do about the frame drop? I guess its probably the forced AA properties i guess would be great if the AA gets turned off and so we can see the results then but i still rate this mod SUPER 10/10 because of the realistic looks of it.

For icenhancer... can you play with other scripts? like a zombie script? and also, for merging Icenhancer files (For Steam) do you go to programfiles/steam/steamapps/common/grand theft auto iv/[then drag in here? the GTAIV] thats the main directory where i put my scripts etc. Ive tried that before but instead of overwriting the same common file via GTAIV directory i clicked on common file(via .RAR files) ( Directing me to the actual .dat file. [ex. *common/data/then the .dat file via .RAR] i drag that into the same place where my GTAIV directory (common/data) is.... Should i overwrite them instead? I also put VisualIV and Realism IV. Then after that i got an error from startup saying ive put in the wrong disc. May it be a file misplaced? or maybe i put the wrong files, because I put every single file from each mod where they are suppose to be(making some files overwrite eachother). So in that case i reinstalled. I would be more than happy if anyone can reply me with answers, because i am so stoked about using eNB graphics enhancer mod! :)

Seems like no one knows how to fix the red sky...I was trying to find the solution myself but so far nothing. It also seems that the sky is always cloudless most of the time, and for some reason the sunny during the day is not exactly sunny at all. Is there anyway to make the weather look brighter on sunny day and put some clouds? Also during the night to have some stars, clouds and remove the stupid red sky? Thanks!

How the * did you get this car mod for 1.0.4.0?!! It's only compatible with 1.0.7.0 and now it won't work with my games which is downgraded! That is a big disappointment, now I hvat to choose between having a nice cars or better graphics and that's a pain. PLEASE send me a link to the exact car mod that you always use in the demonstartions so I can stop srewing up my game files!

Nice graphic's mod but this crashes my game every now and then specially the specific time of crash is when there is a wanted level above 3 stars or police chases the game happens to crash ? does anyone know is this happening and yes i am using patch 1.0.4.0 !

@furkan130 i like the looks of your tress did you edit your trees? if so can you gimme your editied tree file.

also i have tried this mod in 1.0.7 here is my results: see gradation/fuzzys, sky turns red every now and then, it looks like nighttime in the hospital

all the time, the cabray club is now useles due to brightness issuses. it is so bright that they are literally white.

now the good

darkness is * awesome now it looks like a dark night and the city buildings stand out greatly due to their window lights.

although i have to say that if you lose your headlights it looks dark as *. so it actually makes you want to drive safe.

other info: all tress looks nice but they are all green what happened to the reddish brown looking trees?

as mentioned by mocks "seems that in certain situations (most notably during night) that the character models faces and clothes look wet/slimy/glossy.

There's also a strange diagonal scan line effect given from light sources when the camera is positioned in a certain way"

now as for the charcter looking glossy i have seen this and i actually like that effect and would love to see a mod

that makes the blood stains on nikos back after getting shot more wet/glossy looking.

it would make it look like real blood cause blood is a wet liquid not a dry spray of paint, which is what the orignal looks like.

as for the second thing he mentioned it leaves a afterimage and this is bad and a "No No" and can cause crashes if not taken care of. better fix that as quick as you can.

for those of you having a brightness issue there is a small fix that lowers the brightness but not by much

this was written by mirc0091 "Many people here seems to have problems with the brightness using iCEnhancer 1.2 or 1.2.5.

I had the problem too, in both versions. I resolved the problem by editing the GTA 4 in-game settings and using H1Vltg3 modification for iCEnhancer 1.2 and 1.2.5." here is the link "http://www.gta4-mods.com/misc/h1vltg3-final-icenhancer-125-modifed-settings-f9557"

also written by mirc0091 "To make GTA 4 even look better, i use some texture modifications:

@pearljammer he says: ok, does ANYONE know how to get rid of the HUD flicker... cant see my minimap cause of it. And other than that the Mod looks top notch! iCEhancer FTW!!!

and @Krimzon he says: I get so much flicker and * it's impossible to play

I play 1366x768 @ 60Hz on a BenQ G920HD 18.5" and it's fine before I install this, but when I have this, it flickers like mad, and everything disappears and reappears. etc.

A fix perhaps?

I also had flickers. I have an ATI Readeon HD 4500 with Anti Aliasing on.I read on some forum that if u disable it from the catalyst control center you will not get flickers. It worked for me! so try it!

@pearljammer he says: ok, does ANYONE know how to get rid of the HUD flicker... cant see my minimap cause of it. And other than that the Mod looks top notch! iCEhancer FTW!!!

and @Krimzon he says: I get so much flicker and * it's impossible to play

I play 1366x768 @ 60Hz on a BenQ G920HD 18.5" and it's fine before I install this, but when I have this, it flickers like mad, and everything disappears and reappears. etc.

A fix perhaps?

I also had flickers. I have an ATI Readeon HD 4500 with Anti Aliasing on.I read on some forum that if u disable it from the catalyst control center you will not get flickers. It worked for me! so try it!

Hey great doenload, it made my day :) Just 2 things, could you help me with the in game mini movies, there is too much bloom or brightness or somthing, it caused the sky to be and unrealistic hellish red color, thanks for the amazing download

runs good on my pc but these are the problems i have, flickering sky textures, too bright in the safehouse and cutscenes, horrible glow around objects, grainy textures,niko switches from glossy to dry textures for no reason,tyremarks and blood are visible through car bodies and main character body as if they were transparent, if i find any more bugs i will post them

On both 1.2 and 1.25 I've had this same problem: None of my street lights work at night until I'm very close to them. My nights are absurdly dark and it's incredibly difficult to drive when all the street lights don't work til I'm almost right under them.

Yeah its most definitely on. Not only is the sky very odd looking, but other effect don't appear to work. Like sun rays or motion blur. in fact disabling definition makes the whole thing just look poopy :(

the red sky is actually red boxes that widen or expand from certain areas . i found that at mannys place if you look into the sky there is a red box and if you turn to the right the box gets wider thus making the sky look red and if you turn to the left it gets expanded making the sky look red.

my suggestion for the creators of this mod is... if the boxes are neccessary make them higher in the sky to supposaebly make them unseeable.(this means if the red sky boxes is what presents certain effects)

if the red sky is not neccessary and is a problem. then locate all the red sky boxes in the sky you can and delete them. thus replacing the sky back to normal.

the only red sky benefit i have found and you people might think im crazy but at night the sky is reddsih toward ths bottom then is dark/black at top. and i think it looks nice. but the original night sky before this mod is blue towards the bottom then dark/black at the top.

This is a great mod that looks totally next gen and photo realistic at times and runs well on my PC. With the real world car mods, it's my dream combo of GTA4 plus Gran Turismo, only Grand Theft Auto's car damage is worlds better than the rubbish crash modeling in Gran Turismo. Now if only they could fix the taxi bug.

For those with game crashes after loading saves: Apparently, my problem was (OF ALL THINGS!) my in-game graphics settings (i.e. "SETTINGS.CFG" in "AppData/Local/..."), likely the shadows settings but I can't be bothered to confirm. (I just went through many hours of crashes, failure, pain and sadness, so no fcuks can be given at the moment.) Extremely difficult fix: Delete that "SETTINGS.CFG" and restart game. :|

Thanks IcE La Glace, Dpeasant3, Boris Vorontsov, everyone else who helped, and all the tireless modders out there (and their moms). Also: 25 FPS at 1360x768 on Radeon 5770! Not bad! (What? It kinda is? Okay...)

I click the game icon to launch my game after installing the 1.4 folder, xlesslive.dll thing, batchfile, and script hooks...yet nothing happens at all, its as if the game just crashes after i click the icon...any suggestions?

Was unable to Download it MediaFire it keeps say connection was reset in FireFox and Chrome, and filetube the File was deleted. I have been googling it but I keep getting the MediaFire Link that does not work I have tired 2 days now.

Hi i need to know what settings to keep for running this mod on an ATI Radeon 5770 I GB card ?My computer specs are as follows:

Core i7 3.4 Ghz 3.5 GB of usable RAM (Total 8 GB RAM)

This mod slows down my PC like * .When i try to run it though their too much brightness that hurts the eyes .So any body please guide me what to do to make the graphics look like in the videos please .

guys Pls help my game crashes after installing this i get this error: gta 4 fatal error SHFX20 invalid resource detected-please re installl the game when i click play the black screen comes and it crashes to desktop nd i get that error :(

guys Pls help my game crashes after installing this i get this error: gta 4 fatal error SHFX20 invalid resource detected-please re installl the game when i click play the black screen comes and it crashes to desktop nd i get that error :(

It's nice, but *, actually it's foggy, theres to much fog and it should be cleaner. Why THE * noone talks how to solve these things? The modder should provide a fix. And a fix for that stupid red sky what starts at 10 pm and ends 7 am. It's horrible.

I don't remember what version i last had installed, but hopefully this one doesn't glare out my screen to the point where i can't see anything...(also only some of the graphics looked to having taken effect on the version i used)

Scratch that...This needs a HUGE fix! blinding lights...red sky...no actual texture changes to give the appearance of HD quality as suggested...* not one of the videos/screens for this mod is like what i see in my game with everything maxed out...it all(Minus 1 car having a reflection appearance and i mean only 1 has that...) looks like vanilla GTA4...